Table 2.
Scoring thresholds for selected attributes to estimate susceptibility of species.
| Susceptibility Attributes | High Susceptibility High risk (3) |
Moderate Susceptibility Moderate risk (2) |
Low Susceptibility Low risk (1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Availability (distribution; Av) | Mostly in the country/fishery | Limited range in the region | Throughout the region/global |
| Encounterability (vertical overlap of species and fishing gear; E) | High vertical overlap with fishing gear (>50 % of species depth range) | Moderate vertical overlap with fishing gear (25–50 % of species depth range) | Low vertical overlap with fishing gear (<25 % of species depth range) |
| Schooling/Aggregation and other behavioral responses (SABR) | Species or stocks show large aggregation and/or affecting catchability of the gear | Normally found in loose aggregation and/or has distinct pairing between male and female | Solitary species and/or does not affect catchability of the gear |
| Management Strategy (MSt) | Catch and trades are not regulated by laws/act/rules | Catch and trades are regulated by laws/act/rules and compliance of regulation moderate | Catch and trades are regulated by laws/act/rules and compliance of regulation is widespread |
| Survival after capture and release (SCR) | Often retained or has value as a by-product species, or majority dead when released | Likely to be released alive | Evidence of post-capture release and survival |
| Market Demand (MD) | High | Medium | Low |
| Gear Selectivity (GS) | Species is a by-product, has similar physical and life history traits to targeted species, or has traits that attract it to the fishing gear | Species has some similarities to targeted species, but there is evidence it sometimes escapes | Species is not physically similar to targeted species (e.g. much larger or much smaller, different foraging ecology, habitat use) or there is evidence species can escape the gear |
| Price category (TK)/kg (PC); 1 TK = 0.0091USD | >250 | 150–250 | <150 |